The 120 Days of Sodom by Donatien Alphonse Francois, Marquis de Sade

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De Sade is supposed to have written The 120 Days of Sodom in tiny handwriting on a single long roll of paper, while imprisoned in the Bastille. It tells of four men--"libertines," De Sade calls them--who abduct a group of young teenagers, 8 boys and 8 girls, whom they take to a remote castle in order to subject them to an ordeal of humiliation,

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The Cunterbury Tales: My review of the 120 days

[admnaismith]

"What's this!" said Durcet. "Do you then have principles, Duclos? I am very pleased to observe this in you; for, as you appear to realize, any relief given to misfortune, any gesture that lightens the load of the distressed, is a real crime against the natural order. The inequality she has created in our persons proves that this discordance pleases Nature, since 'twas she established it, and since she wishes that it exist in fortunes as well as in bodies. And as the weak may always redress matters by means of theft, the strong are equally allowed to restore inequality, or protect it, by refusing to give aid to the wretched.

And you thought Senator Rand Paul was a brand new horror. In fact, his way of life goes back centuries.

It says a lot about Naked Lunch that I was able to endure-barely-the Marquis de Sade, albeit by skimming through a lot of hideous, repetitive passages that brought out my gag reflex, and still couldn’t cope with Burroughs. I normally like naughty, racy books where you get credit for reading great literature as